Tag: teaching
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Where is the Digital in the Pedagogy?
There’s writing to be done: a book chapter, a journal article, a conference paper. All due within the next two months. All on some aspect of digital pedagogy. There is a weeklong DP workshop syllabus to rebuild. Plus, Andy Famiglietti and I will be giving four brown bag lunch talks this week about … wait…
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Respite from the Grading Trenches
I took time off this morning to consider why the heck I’m teaching this stuff: “Once More Unto the Breach, Or, Why Teach Shakespeare to Georgia Tech Undergraduates.” And now back to the trenches.
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What Does It Mean to Be on “Vacation”
Once upon a time, when I worked at Home Box Office, we had a mandated four-week vacation – well, to be accurate, our first year we were given three weeks but then it would be raised to four. Part of our benefits package also offered the opportunity to take a “sabbatical” (I think the threshold…
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Teaching Tarlton: success!
For my fall ENGL1102 course in City Comedy I assigned students to produce a collaborative digital edition of Tarlton’s Jests. I was curious to see how these anecdotes would work for an undergraduate, non-English major audience. I also wanted to explore how strong a connection could be made between the Jests and a study of…